Mönchengladbach (dpa) – At Borussia Dortmund, the peace at work at the start of the long winter break is seriously disturbed.
The playful oath of revelation at 2: 4 (2: 3) in Mönchengladbach and the associated temporary farewell from the Bundesliga top management hit everyone involved hard. “This is far from our claim. It is clear that this will give us a few restless weeks” commented sporting director Sebastian Kehl. National player Julian Brandt looked no less depressed: “It is extremely heavy baggage. It hurts a lot when you lose before the winter break. For me, it’s my fault, total incompetence.”
Two away defeats in Wolfsburg (0:2) and in Mönchengladbach in four days deprived BVB of a conciliatory end to the first period of the season. Until the Revierclub restarts in the Bundesliga on January 22, every look at the table will cause discomfort. Even the football teacher Edin Terzic didn’t hide his frustration: “You don’t despair, but you are very disappointed. We are not starting from scratch, but from less.”
The sporting director of the BVB sees a great need for action
Little has remained of last summer’s spirit of optimism, when Terzic returned as head coach after 15 days of play with more shadows than lights. After six defeats, BVB are six points adrift of Terzic’s predecessor Marco Rose at the same time last season. Sports director Kehl sees a great need for action: “We will ruthlessly analyze it internally and have to attack again. There are some issues we need to work on.”
With goals conceded by Jonas Hofmann (4th), Ramy Bensebaini (26th), Marcus Thuram (30th) and Kouadio Koné (46th) in front of 54,042 spectators in the sold out Borussia Park, BVB only equalized in the first half , they were still well served. Unlike Terzic, his Gladbach colleague Daniel Farke was looking forward to the time off: “It’s nice to go into the break with such a sense of accomplishment. It was a fantastic night for us. That was an advertisement for football “.
